how were first nations peoples houses in 1960's?

Question

i want to know how they looked, prices, how they were built etc.... everything! i need to know this for my research.

Answer 1

Huh? "first nations" +peoples houses +1960s. right.

Check out Celia Haig-Brown's Taking Control: Power and Contridiction in First Nations Adult Education, University of British Columbia Press, 1995.

Answer 2

In 1960, the average home was probably about 12-13 hundred square feet with three bedrooms, and eat-in kitchen, a bath and possibly another half bath, a living room and maybe a small dinning room. The cost around them would have been somewhere between 25-30 thousand dollars. Depending on location, possible less expense or more. Typical town of 15-20 thousand people is what this most applies to.

Usually the wife did not work, there were most likely 4 kids, and maybe 2 vehicles but not real likely unless an older son had built a " Hot Rod" out of a vehicle from the 1940's.

This is pretty typical of how I grew up except smaller house, 1 vehicle, Mom taught and Dad was a mailman. Older brother had a real Schwinn bike and that got handed down three times. Allowance was 25 cents a week but the local neighborhood grocery/burger stand sold coke for 10 cents a bottle and penny candy was still a penny. Some of the crummy candy you got 2 pieces for a penny. Average new car in 1960 cost around 3 thousand dollars

All these things could vary a huge amount since class lines seemed more prominent then than they do now. Now everyone has a bigger home, 2-3 cars, both work, 2 kids deeply in debt etc. Find someone that has several copies of Reminisce magazine and look through them, You'll get plenty of ideas and they usually give a specific year with prices.

All in all, I thought it was a great time then.